The episode is about the history of euthanasia, sort of… as a historian, Warren provides some really nice insights regarding Nazi Germany and how the eugenics and sterilization/extermination programs worked and how they were the first so called “euthanasia” policies.

Warren is also really interested in the confinement of children with developmental disabilities in the 19th and early 20th century. Where were so many children, in Germany in particular, sent off to institutions? What were the forces that led to mass confinement? What was the relationship between putting kids in institutions around the turn of the century and the later policies of sterilization and mass murder (“euthanasia”) occurring under the Nazis?  What is the legacy of the mass murder of children with disabilities? Have we said goodbye to segregationist measures toward children with disabilities? Are we getting over the damaging stereotypes and misconceptions of the past?